ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,641, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dalian Maritime University (Dalian, China).

"Crowd motion simulation method based on real crowd motion videos" was invented by Peng Jia (Dalian, China), Zongyao Wang (Dalian, China), Yanbo Yang (Dalian, China), Haibo Kuang (Dalian, China), Yuzhe Zhao (Dalian, China), Min Wan (Dalian, China), ShuFang Tong (Dalian, China) and Jinwei Yao (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crowd motion simulation method is provided based on real crowd motion videos. The method includes framing the videos and storing the framed videos into continuous high-definition images, generating a crowd density ...